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Goats are not crazy, their behavior is not crazy, they have a great power to walk across the abyss, you have to keep in mind that for an animal to walk there it must be totally crazy, some of us would think, wouldn’t you?
Goats are not crazy but defy death on cliffs
Dr. Genaro C. Miranda de la Lama, of the Metropolitan University of Mexico, is a goat ethologist. Ethology is the science that deals with the study of animal behavior.
As postulated by the Nobel Prize in Physiology (1973) Konrad Lorenz, ethology answers the how, when, why and why of a given behavior.
This is what Dr. Miranda de la Lama has told us about goats.
Hunger and bipedalism
The first thing is to differentiate domestic goats from wild and feral goats (reverse domestication process). All three types are capable of adapting to environments prohibitive to other mammals, “but some have it more accentuated than others,” says Dr. Miranda de la Lama.
The feeding habit of goats is so open and unselective that they are able to climb abysses without vertigo. Another of their advantages is that they are able to stand upright: they can lift themselves up with their hind legs and look for shoots in the branches or among the rocks.
The behavior of goats is not crazy. In addition to the ability to walk across the abyss, the availability of resources and their social behavior must be taken into account.
The more resources there are (pasture, water), the more goats tend to live in groups. If they climb alone or in small groups, it is because there are no resources on the plain. And because they are capable, unlike other species. It is not a distraction.
Goats in the world
There are 70 breeds of goats in the world. As for domestic goats, ethologists differentiate between single-purpose (meat or milk) and dual-purpose goats. Human purposes, it is understood.
As for wild goats, they distinguish between wild goats (distributed in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran), ibex (Europe, Asia and Africa), turs (Caucasus, between Georgia and Russia) and markhor (in extinction, distributed in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan).
